Friday, October 28, 2016

Overview

On Friday, October 28, 2016, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law will host a conference entitled Bridges II: The Law-STEM Alliance & Next Generation Innovation. The conference will explore the role of law, business, policy, and regulation in the innovation process, and the role of scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs in the process of law and policy-making. There will be three panels that each focus on a particular new technology or innovation: (1) CRISPR, a new DNA-related technology; (2) the Internet of Things; and (3) User Innovation Platforms. The panelists and our keynote presenters - Joel Mokyr (Northwestern) and Eric von Hippel (MIT-Sloan) - will highlight areas of similarity and distinction among the new areas of innovation. Together, we hope that these similarities and distinctions can lead to insights that will help businesses, scientists, and policy-makers in the future. Four Northwestern deans, of the law school, engineering school, business school, and the college of arts & sciences, will share their views. Our goal for the conference is to bring together a diverse group of academic scholars from law, engineering, business, economics, sociology, and other fields for a robust discussion that we hope will facilitate cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Bridges II continues the tradition of innovation at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and is one in a series of programmatic initiatives – including our Master of Science in Law program and our June 2015 Bridges I conference – that are designed to bring together the disciplines of law, business, technology, and science.

Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor of Law; Co-Director, Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy, Duke University Law School

Laurie S. Zoloth,Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Feinberg School of Medicine, Professor of Religious Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University; Director of Graduate Studies

Kristian J. Hammond, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University

Mohanbir Sawhney, McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology, Clinical Professor of Marketing, Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation, Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

Ryan Whalen, Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University School of Information Management

Ivory Mills, PhD-JD Candidate, Northwestern University School of Communications, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law﻿

Thomas Rousse, PhD-JD Candidate, Northwestern University School of Communications, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

Beer & Wine Reception - Thorne Auditorium Lobby

Saturday October 29, 2016

Academic sessions (closed to the public) will take place on Saturday. If you are interested in attending the Saturday discussions, please email Professor David Schwartz, at david.schwartz@law.northwestern.edu.